The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-07-16

cranberry producing regions of the Union. The surface of the state is rolling, covered in many places with magnificent forests of oak, elm, maple, ash, pine, cedar and other valuable timber; and it is diversified by innu- merable picturesque streams, and dotted with beautiful lakes whose wa ters abound with fish. The whole state is rich in minerals. Its Gogebic Iron Range is one of the wonders of the world. It is mountain range of solid magnetic iron ore, as easily and cheaply worked as gravel or sand. The region was unknown three years ago, and to-day the capitalized valua- tion of its mines and enterprises is over $200,000,000. Wisconsin is fa- nous for the number and attractive ness of it's health and pleasure resorts. The names of Waukesha, Oconomo- woe, Ton-ya-wa-tha, Sparta and Devils Lake are known throughout the Union, and Waukesha water is shipped to the remotest regions of the globe. Milwaukee, the metropolis, is beautifully built city of about 150,0 900 people, and Madison, Oshkosh, Racine, Fond du Lac, La Crosse and Ashland are all important and pros- | porous cities.
 Iowa, as its name in the Indian tongue denotes, is Beautiful Land" ]" On all the globe there is none, as an agricultural region, a home land, more beautiful or more bountiful. It has an area of 55,045 square miles, or 35 ,28S,- 800 acres, ninety five- hundredths of it tillable, and unsurpassed in product iveness. Statisticians declare it's won- derful soil is capable of a cultivation that would yield harvests amply suffi- cient to feed 30,00O,000 people. Corn. wheat, oats, rye, barley, flax and all root and vegetable crops yield well. Wild and tame grasses and clover grow luxuriantly everywhere. Stock raising is great and profitable indus try. Iowa, though one of the young est states in the Union, ranks first as producer of hogs, and second in corn. It's coal fields cover 10000 square miles. The state has taken many national premiums for it's fruit and dairy products. It's whole sur face is beautifully undulating prairie, interspersed along all the streams with groves of oak, elm, walnut, ash, hickory, maple, linn and cottonwood. Living springs burst from all it's hill- sides. The climate is delightful. healthtul and invigorating. ranking, according to census figures, among the first in salubrity. The state has a frontage of 729 miles on the Missis- sippi and Missouri rivers, while thou sands of smaller streams traverse every portion of it, and hundreds of crystal lakes, swarming with delicious fish, dot all it's northern counties. The state is sown broadcast with churches. schools, colleges, asylums, hospitals, and all the other varieties of religious, educational, correctional and charita- ble institutions; there are over 13,00O school-houses and the annual expendi- ture for public school purposes is about S6,000,000. The United States census shows fewer illiterate people in Iowa in proportion to population than in any other state of the Union Newspapers are numerous and we'll sustained. When the state was admit ted in 1846 its population was but little over 100000. In 1850, it had 2,214; in 1860, 674,913; in 1870, l. 194 ,020; and in 1880, 1,624,62O, which has now swelled to nearly, if not quite, 2,000,000. The percentage of increase since 1860 has been four times that of the country at large. With millions of acres of cheap and fertile lands, i'll state that has no debt. and where taxation is scarcely more than nominal, where soil and climate are unsurpassed; with water and fuel, tim Der and stone ill abundance, limitless facilities of transportation; among an intelligent, progressive and prosperous people, blessed with all possible edu- cational advantages, what region on earth can offer more inducements to the seeker for home? Burlington, Davenport, Keokuk, Des Moines, Ce- dar Rapids, Muscatine, Clinton, Ot- tumwa and Council Bluffs, are four ishing and substantial young cities. Spirit Lake is one of the most charm ing summering- places on the conti- nent, and the healing waters of Colfax Springs are remedy for many of the ills that flesh is heir to.
 Missouri, lying almost in the exact geographical center of the United States, is unexcelled in natural advan- tages and resources by any other state in the Union, and perhaps equaled by but two. It has an area of 65,35O square miles, or fl, 1924, ,000 acres; eight times as large as Massachusetts. In climate it is precisely on the line to escape the rigors of the far northern winters, and the torrid heats of the far southern summers, while its vast